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Huw Dixon

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Software Engineer at Umber Commerce · Distributed databases · consensus, RocksDB

Works at
Umber Commerce
Location
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
Experience
1+ years experience
Education
King's College London
Languages
English, German

Overview

I've spent 1 years on distributed databases, now at Umber Commerce. Reduced cloud spend on storage by 18% in two quarters. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 566ms to 70ms. Most at home with performance engineering and consensus. I write short fiction no one reads.

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  • Working sessions on Rust
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
C++Raftperformance engineeringRocksDBconsensusRust

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Umber Commerce · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 14 a week to 2.
    • Moved 72% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 36 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. King's College London
    BSc, Computer Science
    2021 - 2024

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